The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-02-26
Farm FCdIer,

Quiet kicking COW simply by putting
strap in her month and buckling it tight.
behind her horns.
Carefully ''hand-pick" the gardel
,eds you saved last season, saving only tn,
.erfect ones.
Keep your horses sharp shod. l
rains an animal fearfully to draw loaG
n the ice, unless its foot is planted solidlS
every step.
Progressive men always want to do bet
,r than they have done in the past, and
he live farmer carries this idea into his
Irming and stock raising.
When you hear a man complaining
bout lice on cattle and ticks on sheep, you
an make up your mind that he is not prop
rly feeding and caring for his animals.
Three inch tiles for blanching celery
re growing in favor.
When your soil seems to yield but hall
hat it ought to, plow deeper.
Now is the time to look over seed cata-
Dgues and make selections.
One of the principle causes of yellows
peach orchards is due TO a lack of potash
the soil.
Window plants that appear yellow and
ckly are generally found to be suffering
ON too much water and too much insect
Good onion seed, planted early an,
ell in good, rich soil, well manured. is al.
lost certain to produce a large yield,
rOperly cultivated.
MANY of the ills affecting the hogs aI'
lie TO the filthy pens. 1t is not so mucl.
| the amount of filth that the difficulty is
ret as in the dampness caused by the filth.
The best heating material for hOt-beds
fresh horse manure from stable where
t least six horses are kept, so that it will
ut take too long to accumulate load.
For loose bowels: Half rations, mod
rate exercise and comfortable night quar-
RS. In extreme cases fast day, followed
Iext day by quart of warm cruel with a
.'inch of ginger.
Pregnant ewes should be carefully
watched and attended to during the winter
months, if good profitable crop OF lambs
) expected. Otherwise large percentage
II the lambs are lost, the eve grow weakly
md profits are gone.
Straw and wheat bran has been found
Utmost equivalent to good hay in feeding
value by some farmers, and as bran is
heap material its combination with straw
hould produce fair profit over cost IL fed
Turing the winter months.
Some of our most careful orchadists
contend that thrifty trees, made so by an
nual applications of rich plant food, are less
liable to take the yellows than starved
specimens.
There is nothing more aggravating
than balky horse, and nothing so un-
necessary. In nine out Of ten cases where
horses have formed this habit it has been
the fault of those who handle them.
Let every one be very careful in ap-
preaching animals diseased with glanders,
as the merest trihe of the virus is liable to
inoculate one with this violent blood poison.
and the result is death.
The very best stock will not be long In
degenerating, if not properly fed and cared
for. The man whO puts money into good
blood, and then negleets it, is excessively
eXtrayagant.
Farmers in neighbOrhood can club
together and buy thoroughbred stallion,
pure-bred bull or ram, and thus improve
the stock Of the whole country round about,
on the cooperative plan.
Sale bills printed as this office, neat
and cheap. You secure place in our sale
register, published every week. 1t will
pay you.
DIR. K. Butler, Master Of Arts, Cambridge
University, England. says: 'St. jacobs Oil
acts like nagiC."